>Here's some info I found on the web regarding Admiral Stitt. If he is in
>anyone's line, let me know:
>
>Edward Rhodes Stitt Lecture Award. This award was established in 1954 in
>honor of Rear Admiral Edward Rhodes Stitt, MC, USN. Admiral Stitt was a
>Surgeon General of the Navy for eight years and played a major role in the
>field of military pathology. Admiral Stitt had an international reputation
>as an expert in the field of tropical medicine. He was president of AMSUS
>in 1925 and 1942.
>Source URL: http://www.amsus.org/aw_prog.html
>
>also,
>
>"Admiral Edward Stitt, the chief medical officer of the navy, had inquired
>at the University of Pennsylvania about potential candidates, Stitt, an
>authority in tropical diseases, had been a former student of William
>Keen...." Source URL: http://public.carleton.edu/~vestc/text/gdc07.html